Transport or Store? Synthesizing Flow-based Microfluidic Biochips using Distributed Channel Storage
Abstract
Flow-based microfluidic biochips have attracted much atten- tion in the EDA community due to their miniaturized size and execution efficiency. Previous research, however, still follows the traditional computing model with a dedicated storage unit, which actually becomes a bottleneck of the performance of bio- chips. In this paper, we propose the first architectural synthe- sis framework considering distributed storage constructed tem- porarily from transportation channels to cache fluid samples. Since distributed storage can be accessed more efficiently than a dedicated storage unit and channels can switch between the roles of transportation and storage easily, biochips with this dis- tributed computing architecture can achieve a higher execution efficiency even with fewer resources. Experimental results con- firm that the execution efficiency of a bioassay can be improved by up to 28% while the number of valves in the biochip can be reduced effectively.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- May 2017
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1705.04998
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1705.04998
- Bibcode:
- 2017arXiv170504998L
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Emerging Technologies
- E-Print:
- ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2017